Veronika Fuechtner

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

  • Chair of Comparative Literature

  • Associate Professor of German Studies

  • Affiliate Faculty in in Jewish Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Veronika Fuechtner is Chair of Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth. She also teaches in Jewish Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  In addition, she occasionally has held an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the Geisel School of Medicine. She is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic (University of California Press, 2011) and the co-editor of Imagining Germany, Imagining Asia (with Mary Rhiel, Camden House, 2013) and A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960 (with Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan Jones, University of California Press, 2017). She recently completed a monograph on Thomas and Heinrich Mann's Brazilian mother, Julia Mann, and the Mann family construction of race and "Germanness." Her research interests include the history of psychoanalysis and sexology, the relationship between science and culture, discourses on race and ethnicity, German-language modernism, contemporary culture, German-language film, and global cultural and scientific histories. She has received research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences Research Council. She currently serves on the advisory board of PMLA and she chairs the conduct and anti-harassment committee of the GSA.  She has served on the national steering committee of Women in German, and the 20th and 21st LCC forum executive committee of the MLA. In spring 2020 she was the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and for the academic year 2020/21 she was a fellow at Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities.  In the fall of 2022 she held a short-term residency at the Cape Modern House Trust.  In the fall of 2024 she is a Jonathan Crewe Fellow at Dartmouth's Leslie Center for the Humanities to continue her work as editor of Norton's new critical edition of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.

Contact

Veronika.Fuechtner@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-2408
Dartmouth Hall, Room 310E
HB 6084

Education

  • Zwischenprüfung (B.A. equivalent) Philipps-Universität in Marburg an der Lahn
  • M.A. Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ph.D. University of Chicago

Selected Publications

  • A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960, co-edited with Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan Jones, with essays by the editors and Sanjam Ahluwalia, Chiara Beccalossi, Pablo Ben, Shrikant Botre (with Haynes), Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, Rainer Herrn, Rebecca Hodes, Rachel Hsu, Ralph Leck, Kirsten Leng, Kurt MacMillan, Mark McLelland, Ishita Pande, Michiko Suzuki, Robert Deam Tobin, Angie Willey. With an Afterword by Howard Chiang (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

  • Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies, co-edited with Mary Rhiel, with essays by the editors and Sai Bhatawadekar, Petra Fachinger, Randall Halle, David Kim, Hoi-eun Kim, Perry Myers, Kamakshi Murti, Qinna Shen, Quinn Slobodian, and Chunjie Zhang (Rochester: Camden House, October 2013).

  • Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (University of California Press, 2011).

  • "Democracy Dies in the Kitchen," In: eds. Nikolai Blaumer, Benno Herz, Heike Catharina Mertens, Das Thomas Mann Haus in Pacific Palisades, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2023, 179-183.

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Selected Works & Activities

Selected Conferences

The Mann Family - Lives and Fictions (2019)

Towards a Global History of Sexual Science (2013)

Courses